Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris

Backport ZFS Support for pygrub to Xen 3.3.1 providing via http://gitco.de

Gitco is providing http://www.gitco.de/repo/src/xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm for free download. It gives am immediate option to back port Pygrub ZFS support from Xen 3.4-testing mercurial tree. Details follow bellow:-


# yum -y install transfig texi2html tetex-latex gtk2-devel libaio-devel gnutls-devel
# yum update ecryptfs-utils
[root@ServerXen ~]# wget http://www.gitco.de/repo/src/xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm
--16:03:02--  http://www.gitco.de/repo/src/xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm
Resolving www.gitco.de... 78.47.43.57
Connecting to www.gitco.de|78.47.43.57|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11381385 (11M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: `xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm'
100%[========================================================>] 11,381,385  82.0K/s   in 97s    
16:04:39 (115 KB/s) - `xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm' saved [11381385/11381385]
[root@ServerXen ~]# rpm -iv xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm

Edit correspondently:-


# vi /etc/yum.conf
gpgcheck=0
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/XEN.repo
[xen]
name=CentOS-$releasever - XEN
baseurl=http://www.gitco.de/repo/xen3.3.1
gpgcheck=0

Change directory to /usr/src/redhat and add to reuired change sets to SOURCES


[root@ServerXen redhat]# ls -l
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun  7 13:07 BUILD
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 28 15:54 RPMS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  7 13:01 SOURCES
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  7 13:06 SPECS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  7 13:19 SRPMS
[root@ServerXen redhat]# cd SOURCES
[root@ServerXen SOURCES]# ls -l
total 11116
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1296 Jan 21 00:47 xen-3.3.1-config.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1779 Jan 21 00:47 xen-3.3.1-dumpdir.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1335 Jun  7 13:01 xen-3.3.1-hg19322.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1392 Jun  7 13:01 xen-3.3.1-hg19323.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     2229 Jan 21 00:47 xen-3.3.1-hotplug-locking-rhel.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     7063 Jan 21 00:47 xen-3.3.1-initscripts.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11329774 Jan  5 15:28 xen-3.3.1.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 root root      325 Aug 26  2008 xen.sysconfig
[root@ServerXen SOURCES]# cd ../SPECS
[root@ServerXen SPECS]# ls -l
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35130 Jun  7 13:06 xen-3.3.1.spec

Modify spec file correspondently :-


[root@ServerXen SPECS]# vi xen-3.3.1.spec
. . . . . 
Patch1: %{name}-%{version}-initscripts.patch
Patch2: %{name}-%{version}-hotplug-locking-rhel.patch
Patch3: %{name}-%{version}-dumpdir.patch
Patch4: %{name}-%{version}-config.patch
Patch5: %{name}-%{version}-hg19322.patch
Patch6: %{name}-%{version}-hg19323.patch
. . . . . . . . . . .
%patch1 -p1 -b .init
%patch2 -p1
%patch3 -p1
%patch4 -p1
%patch5 -p1
%patch6 -p1
:wq

Now build


[root@ServerXen SOURCES]# rpmbuild -ba ./xen-3.3.1.spec
[root@ServerXen SOURCES]# cd ../SPECS
[root@ServerXen SPECS]# ls -l
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35130 Jun  7 13:06 xen-3.3.1.spec
[root@ServerXen SPECS]# vi xen-3.3.1.spec

When done install ( or reinstall patched RPMS)


[root@ServerXen SPECS]# cd ../RPMS/x86_64
[root@ServerXen x86_64]# ls -l
total 9724
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     131 Jun  7 13:38 install.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9268378 Jun  7 13:19 xen-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  228948 Jun  7 13:19 xen-debuginfo-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  260567 Jun  7 13:19 xen-devel-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  161287 Jun  7 13:19 xen-libs-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm
[root@ServerXen x86_64]# cat install.sh
yum install xen-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm \
xen-debuginfo-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm \
xen-devel-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm \
xen-libs-3.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm
[root@ServerXen x86_64]# ./install.sh